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OPINION

The divide in America

Montgomery Advertiser
Published 2:47 p.m. CT Nov. 22, 2016

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There’s been a lot of wailing, garment rending and gnashing of teeth on the Left because of Trump’s election as president. Phrases like “America is turning fascist” and similar nonsense are floating about. Millennials and Generation Xers, many of whom didn’t bother to vote, are rioting in the streets of major cities. Holiday celebrators are disinviting family members who were foolish enough to say who they voted for. The divide in America is stark and seemingly unbridgeable.

But I say let’s look at the bright side of the 2016 election. It’s the season of thanksgiving, and there will be changes for which we should all be grateful. For the first time in eight years, the media won’t be in the tank for the Administration. For the first time in eight years, the chattering classes will suddenly re-recognize the genius of the Founding Fathers who, in their wisdom, created a form of government with checks and balances and the separation of powers. Once more, dissent will return to its former place of glory as the highest form of patriotism. Mayors in “sanctuary cities” will demand a renewed respect for Federalism, without which they would likely be required to uphold federal immigration laws. And, finally, some trash-talking celebrities will make good on their pre-election promises and emigrate to Canada.

George Cully

Montgomery

Roby flip-flopping after Trump's win

Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, said a few weeks before the election, after the release of a tape where Republican nominee Donald Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women, that she would not vote for him because he is an admitted sexual predator. However, a few days after the election, she is prepared to rubber stamp whatever Trump brings to the table. This was after she narrowly won reelection and saw that she was in danger of losing her seat. To put her flip-flops in context, her desire to continue the life-style to which she has become accustomed outweighs any concern she has for her daughter seeing her support a sexual pervert who preys on young women because he has money and power.

Roby says she wants to continue to work for fiscal responsibility in government. Really? This from someone who not only voted for the $24 billion Republican shutdown of the government but voted to extend it. She has also voted more than 40 times to repeal the ACA and participated in the endless Benghazi "hearings," which were costly and where she made a fool of herself. Now, she is pledging to support Trump's massive welfare program for the richest Americans which will add trillions to the debt. She continually harasses the IRS as they try to force her supporters to comply with tax laws.

Roby claims to be "pro-life" but supports the merchants of death in the anti-American, anti-law enforcement NRA as well the president-elect who endorses the NRA and torture. Can we spell h-y-p-o-c-r-I-t-e?

What's truth got to do with it?

I want to set the record straight on something. The something is the popular vote. In this election cycle for president, who has the actual, unadulterated and unbiased detailed factors of who voted for whom and why? Not a single person. Not one, I remind you. I keep hearing the Almighty CNN crew spouting that Hillary Clinton garnered the popular vote! Oh yeah? They’re about as unbiased as that unwelcome thing in a swimming pool.

Here are the facts: Until you can prove who voted for whom and why, you have no proof that Hillary Clinton got the popular vote. Simple reasoning: If you can tell me who voted for Trump because of Hillary or vice versa, then you get my attention. Until then, how about stopping with the braggadocios that Hillary got all those popular votes because we find her irresistible.

It just ain’t so. Until you give me the definitive figures and the underlying statistical differential, it is just pure conjecture and fodder for the masses – who gobble it up, as if truth has little validity in the process.

Regardless of their faults, I’ll take a John F. Kennedy or a Ronald Reagan any day.

'America First' slogan is dangerous

"America First" is a favorite slogan of President-elect Donald Trump, as it was during his campaign. "America First" was also a favorite slogan of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh when he led a movement to keep America from intervening when Hitler was taking over Europe. Lindbergh was an isolationist who underestimated the threat of Hitler to America. Trump might be an isolationist who underestimates the threat of Putin to America. Just as Lindbergh would have us do nothing when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia, Poland and France in 1939 and 1940, Trump might have us do nothing if Putin tries to take over more of eastern Europe and Syria. World War II should have taught us that isolationism fails, and we need to be involved internationally to stop aggression in the name of freedom, not only for ourselves, but for others.